47 days to go........

We are on day 47 and I've already given you 3 reasons why I love my future husband. By the time this is over I will have listed 50 different things/or memories that have happened with him that I have loved dearly. The great thing about Lance is that daily he does things that make me want to hug him a little tighter. This post is an impromptu post. It wasn't in my original 50. But that Lance, he keeps me on my toes!

On Friday, I did a trial run with a hair dresser to see how we were going to do my hair. She was slightly overwhelmed because my hair is so thick and there is just so darn much of it! See picture below and you'll know what I'm talking about!

I had made an appointment with my normal hair dresser to get my hair cut before the wedding, so I told this hair dresser, don't worry, my hair will be a little* shorter for the wedding. I'm getting it cut tomorrow, so there won't be as much to work with!

Well, I did end up getting it cut. But the few inches I thought were coming off turned into half my hair. As seen below.

I was so upset when I got home that I walked into our bedroom and just started crying. Poor Lance thought something was wrong. When he finally realized I was crying over my weed whacked hair he started laughing at me. Oh, yes, I do love this man. =) My hair is growing on me (though it's not growing fast enough!). My main concern is that it's not going to be long enough to do the up-do that I wanted for the wedding. My hair dresser swears it will be and I hope she's right. I wouldn't have really cared that much if I didn't have a wedding in a month an a half!

Maybe after the wedding I'll start growing it out again and then donate it to Locks of Love! Or, maybe I'll like the short do so much I'll keep it. Only time will tell!

Thanks for being there to laugh at me Lance! You always know how to put things into perspective! =)

Love,
Suzanne
*Apparently a few inches to a non hair dresser (me) means something totally different to a real hair dresser! =)

48 days to go!

Time is flying by! Only 48 days to go. My next stop down memory lane is my last day (from Disney) party. My last days at Disney were a little bitter sweet. I was happy to be leaving, but after 8 years there, some of my best friends were still there. And I loved being able to see them every day! 

It was time to go though, I had advanced as far as I had wanted to there, and frankly, I was tired of working every stinking holiday! 

Lance of course was awesome on this day. He was working at the STA at USC and I was already at Northrop. I was so sick on this day. Lance had taken the train from LB to LA then he was going to take the train from his work to my work. We were then going to drive to Orange County and have my last day party.* My boss at Northrop let me go early that day because I was so sick, but I couldn't go home because Lance would be left without a car. So I drove to the train station and slept. When he got there he drove me to the OC and to the party and then took care of me when I had a bit too much to drink!

My sister Cat did everything in her power to embarrass me..... hence the pink tiara! I had a great time that night. After a few drinks I didn't feel sick at all! =)

*One would think that most people would have their "last day" party their actual last day. Nope, not me. I had mine about a week or two after I had already quit! =) I was busy what can I say! hahahaha

Love, Suzanne

49 days to go!

49 days to go, and after only doing 1 blog, I almost forgot about doing this one! Oops! At least I remembered before we had to head off to work. 

This post is about our trip to New Zealand. There will definitely be more New Zealand posts since we had so many special memories there! Lance and I are Amazing Race fanatics. We have watched the show together since we started dating and we love to check out all the cool places they travel too. Watching it with Lance always cracks me up because he watches it and tells you before hand which flights will get you there the fastest and which one has long layovers etc. His travel agent skills come in handy watching this show! 

In one of the seasons, the players went to an ice bar in Russia. It was the coolest thing ever! Everything was frozen, from the bar, to the chairs, to even the cup they were drinking their drinks out of. When we got to New Zealand we started checking out different things to do. We found a brochure for an ice bar just walking distance from our hotel. We just had to try it out. It was so awesome. It was everything I expected, and more. They would only let you stay in there for about 25 minutes. My guess is that getting drunk in a freezing bar is probably not good for your body, so everybody had a 25 minute time limit to enjoy the bar. Of course they ushered you out into a non ice bar because they still want you to drink! hahahaha

We had such a great time at the ice bar and it was such a great experience. We actually felt like we were on the Amazing Race!

Love, Suzanne

Countdown....50 days to go!

Well, we only have 50 more days until Lance and I say "I do"! I wanted to do something special as we countdown to wedding day and I have decided to do 50 blogs in 50 days. I can't believe I'm about to commit to this during the final stages of wedding planning, but I really think Lance and I will be able to look back at this and enjoy it a lot. Plus, I think it will be so much fun traveling down memory lane as we approach our wedding date!

The stories I'm about to share with you over the next 50 days are stories from the last 4 1/2 years Lance and I have been dating. They are stories and pictures of some of my favorite moments over those years. I hope you all enjoy the next month and a half of stories!

50 days to go......... This picture was taken about 2 weeks after Lance and I started dating. This trip to the Long Beach Aquarium was our first big outing; and the first picture we ever took together. This picture has such sentimental value to me because it is our first picture. I remember printing it off a few days after our trip to the aquarium and putting it up in my cubical at Disney. 

One thing I remembered about that trip was me talking to him about the fact that I was about to go back to school soon. We had started dating at the end of June/beginning of July and my college classes started soon in August. Come September I would be going to school full time and working two jobs. I wanted to make sure he was going to be ok with the fact that my time with him was going to be very much limited once that happened. He was so sweet and supportive. We had only been dating a few weeks and he said to me that it didn't matter, he would still be there for me. Yup, I pretty much new at that point, the day we took this picture, he was a keeper!

                                                 

Lance had that thing growing out from under his lip when we first started dating. I hated that thing........and as the pictures progress you will notice that it disappears......hhhmmm wonder how that happened??? hahahahaha

Love, Suzanne

Wedding Shower

About a month ago now, my dear friend Sandy from Violette (the elementary school I used to work at) hosted a beautiful wedding shower for me. I worked at Violette for 5 years and loved every minute of it. I loved my job, my students and most of all the staff! Some of the Violette staff has known me since I was just a little girl, since my mom has been at Violette for the last twenty something years!

These are the smartest, most caring, thoughtful, talented group of people I know. And they are damn good teachers too! If I can weasel my way into having my kids go there, I'm so going to do it! Maybe I'll get the hook ups! =)

Here are some pictures from the fun day!

Cat and Rachel drinking it up!

Paula and myself! I was so excited to see Paula! I hadn't seen her in way too long!



Some of the teachers helped out and make some absolutely delicious food for the party! That's one thing I left off of my list of things they are good at! They are all great cooks and for some odd reason they expect me to become a good cook too. HHHMMM we'll see about that! =)



Here I am getting ready to eat some of the great food!

Thanks for the flowers Jackie they were beautiful! And, they just happen to be my favorite type of flower! Don't worry, you all will be seeing a lot of them at the wedding!


These were the awesome cakes Sandy had out for dessert. They were very yummy! Talk about a sugar rush!!

Here are some pictures of the party guests!

This picture is where they try and make me a better cook! I hope it works!


Thank you Sandy for a wonderful shower! I had a wonderful time and it meant so much to me and Lance. We love you and your family so much! I hope that Cathy's wedding goes just as you have planned it! hahahaha

Love,
Suzanne

I'm taking over the world....DisneyWorld that is!

How cool would this be if it we actually true! It would be slight pay back for the 8 years I had to work holidays, birthdays, special events, gradnights and the list goes on and on! =)




At the end you can send it to whomever you would like if you want to!

Love,
Suzanne

Lance's Birthday

On Wednesday I took a half day to go get my wedding dress fitted and also to celebrate Lance's birthday! I've decided I'm in the wrong business and I need to get into the alterations business! My alterations cost me half the total cost of my dress. Completely ridiculous! But, I wasn't about to fall flat on my face walking down the isle so pay the absurd amount of money I did!

Now on to Lance's birthday. When I got home we went down to K-1 Speed. K-1 is a go cart speedway where the go carts go about 45 mph. I bought us both 3 races each, but I only went twice. My daredevil days are past me I guess. I was driving along and this pre-teen girl who was in our heat had spun out around a blind corner. I never saw her, hence the blind corner part. Luckily I was going some what slower because it was a corner, but that crash knocked me around good! The crash didn't faze that little girl. Me, I was done. I had a big bruise along my inner leg that was the same shape as the steering column, a bruise on my neck from the seat belt, and bruises along my side from being josseled around in the go cart. This is why we have to wear these big helmets. I should have turned around at that point! =) For those of you who know Dr. Wilson, he would not have been pleased!

Sitting out the last round I was able to take pictures of Lance as he went around the track. Our little digital camera could not keep up with how fast he was going. I was trying to time it perfectly and it would take so darn long for the thing to take he was already gone when it finally did! Oh, and the lighting was horrible in there! Sorry they are so dark. If you can spot him, he's in the gray shirt and jeans.

The last picture is our dinner at Dukes down in Huntington Beach. It's one of our favorite restaurants and it sits right on the water. Since it was Lance's birthday they gave him a piece of Hula Pie. The best dessert EVER! You can tell he's excited! hahahaha

Hope you had a fun birthday Lance! I love you lots!

Love to everyone!

Suzanne